I'd say all depends on your family relations- I left an abusive home at 15 y.o. but now have 3 degrees, and shedloads of adv. dips.

I think people in other countries than the US have richer, more developed lives. People in the US are always in a rush and it's all about them.

My husband and I decided long ago that our children are welcome in our home regardless of age as long as they are respectful to everyone. Currently, our sons are 19 and 22 and still live at home when they aren't at school. We have agreed to pay for their bachelor's degrees to try to help give them a better chance when they do decide to try to brave this big and oftentimes scary world in which we live. I have family members who have thrown their children out as soon as they graduated from high school, and I don't understand it.

It depends upon the family. I had to get out of my mother's house ASAP, she is an abusive bitch with Borderline Personality Disorder. I could probably have lived with my Aspie father until I was 30 or so, but he died when I was 12.